Chapter 178 Black Shell

With the appearance of the four options [Repair], [Evolution], [Decomposition], and [Gene Backtracking] on the panel.

Chen Ming fell into thought again.

He could understand the first three options well, as they were different names for the same function of biomass spacecraft and ordinary spacecraft.

But he couldn't guess the effect of the last one [Gene Backtracking] just by looking at the name.

But since it was all on the panel and he had seen it, he had to give it a try.

Chen Ming pressed [Gene Backtracking].

A new panel appeared immediately, allowing Chen Ming to briefly understand the function of gene backtracking.

In simple terms, it consumes biomass and Chen Ming's mental power to extract the possibility of evolution in genes.

"Extract the possibility of evolution in genes?"

Chen Ming read out the sentence displayed on the panel, and for some reason he always felt that this sentence was strange.

But it was not a big problem. Anyway, the two big words "evolution" were there, so how could he not try it?

When Chen Ming pressed OK.

Chen Ming's mental power suddenly ran out like a floodgate, and the speed of consumption was almost as fast as the extra core bonus he provided to HR before.

However, the overall consumption was not as outrageous as the demand for 100% mental power, and it only consumed about 20% of his mental power.

And at the moment when Chen Ming's mental power stopped flowing out.

It seemed to be due to the Zerg hive mind network. A somewhat dim and blurred picture suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

A picture that seemed to come from the memory stored in the genes.

There was a creature that was nearly ten meters long, wrapped in a pitch-black shell and looked like a mammoth in ancient times. It seemed to be a Zerg creature, being hunted by a group of Thorn Zerg.

The Thorn Zerg attacked desperately, but their acid, spikes, and sharp blades, almost all of their attack methods could not cause effective damage to this huge black Zerg.

Chen Ming just felt curious about the follow-up, and the fragment that flashed in his mind disappeared.

Then he saw that an option appeared on the evolution panel that was originally empty because he had no knowledge of biotechnology.

[Pitch-black shell].

This option appeared directly on the panel, and Chen Ming did not need to learn the relevant technology.

This is the effect of gene backtracking, extracting the ability contained in the Zerg's own genes.

Or...

Chen Ming's mind once again flashed the scene of the Zerg hunting the giant black Zerg.

What is extracted is the genes of other creatures plundered by the Zerg after devouring other creatures.

It sounds very good, but Chen Ming thought carefully, isn't it just a blind box?

Zerg can even eat ore and convert it into biomass, so it is normal to eat more creatures.

Then there are probably many kinds of creatures hidden in their genes.

What can be extracted depends on luck.

Although Chen Ming was lucky this time and extracted an obviously good gene, it may not be the case next time.

It's best not to have too much hope.

Anyway, Chen Ming has this idea, it's best if it succeeds, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

Only in this way can his emotions be very stable when he encounters failure, and he will not be disturbed by failure.

However, since the first thing he drew from the blind box seemed to be pretty good, he had to consider [evolution], which was the [transformation] of ordinary spaceships.

Like ordinary spaceships, the evolution of biological spaceships also required the consumption of nutrients and biomass as materials, and Chen Ming's mental power was needed to maintain the process.

A destroyer-class biological spaceship did not require much mental power from Chen Ming.

Only things like biomass were not easy to get under normal circumstances.

But Chen Ming is now on a habitable planet.

Moreover, the biological spaceship itself can digest a bunch of messy things and transform them into nutrients and biomass to maintain its survival.

So even if there is no habitable planet, Chen Ming does not need to worry about this problem.

So he confirmed that the remaining biomass after the queen absorbed most of the various organizations and Zergs that had just been desperately created was enough for evolution.

He left the interior of the spaceship from the way he came before and returned to the highest point.

Then he directly chose to confirm and let the biomass spaceship start the process of evolving [black carapace].

Chen Ming's mental power began to fade.

The biomass and nutrients in the giant storage chamber flowed through the different thicknesses of the biological spacecraft's blood vessels and were sent to various parts of the hull by their unique blood.

And as the nutrients were absorbed, the growth organisms gradually overflowed from the gaps in the shell of the biological spacecraft.

It was exactly the same as the scene in Chen Ming's memory of the queen worm, when its mother evolved from a frigate to a destroyer.

The cocoon formed by the growth organisms gradually wrapped the biomass spacecraft in it.

Since the Queen is now a whole with the biological spaceship, Chen Ming temporarily lost contact with her during the evolution process.

It seems that the Zerg is very vulnerable during the evolution time.

He must be careful in the future and not let his worms evolve without protection.

Originally, if the Queen evolved underground, she would have the protection of a whole nest, but now the only thing that can protect the Queen is his spaceship.

So Chen Ming asked the High Point to start the scanning array again to prevent the mechanical race from attacking.

At the same time, the Defender was sent into the air for alert, making a second layer of protection.

In addition, he asked Brilliant, who was still in orbit, to pay attention to the situation on his side and be alert to some abnormalities that he might not have discovered.

He took the best safety measures he could at present.

After waiting for about half an hour, which was much longer than the time it took to transform an ordinary spaceship.

A crack suddenly appeared on the giant cocoon made of the solidified augmented organisms.

Chen Ming, who was reading various materials with the terminal, immediately turned off the terminal and looked at the cocoon outside the biomass spaceship.

Soon, with a crisp sound, a pure black biomass spaceship emerged from its cocoon.

Its matte black color makes it almost impossible to reflect any light.

If it is in space without professional scanning equipment, it would be difficult to find its trace.

Not only the outer shell, but also the interior of the biological spaceship has changed.

Not only is its heart covered with such a black shell.

The Queen in the heart, as well as all the Zerg still active on the biological spaceship, all have their brown shells turned into such a black color.

But just looking at it, you can't see the effect of the new black shell.

So Chen Ming planned to actually experiment with it.

Chen Ming hadn't had time to dismantle the mechanical arm on the defender next to him.

The Queen, who had regained consciousness, cooperated very well and took the initiative to stop next to the defender that landed on the ground again.

The drill on the giant mechanical arm and the powerful mining laser were still working on its body.

Let Chen Ming test the strength of the shell.

However, what Chen Ming noticed at the first time was not the strength of the pitch-black carapace itself.

Rather, it was the difference between the pitch-black carapace on the biological spaceship and the carapace on the pitch-black Zerg in the picture he had just seen in his consciousness.

Chen Ming could clearly see that the pitch-black carapace on the spaceship was basically equivalent to the fusion of the extremely strong pitch-black carapace with the Thorn Zerg carapace that could support the biological spaceship in hyperspace and space travel.

It was not that the carapace on the pitch-black bug was simply pulled off and installed on the spaceship.

The name displayed in the armor column on the biological spaceship panel also confirmed Chen Ming's conjecture.

[Biological Armor: Heavy Biomass Spaceship Pitch-Black Carapace]

As for the actual strength of this heavy pitch-black carapace, it can be concluded through Chen Ming's test that it is generally slightly lower than that of Baiyun Steel Alloy.

However, except for strength, almost all other properties of the pitch-black carapace are stronger than those of Baiyun Steel Alloy.

Unless it is 100% pure Baiyun Steel, it can completely crush the performance of the pitch-black carapace.

But the pitch-black carapace has another advantage, which is cheap.

It only needs the most basic biomass to build, without any other additional consumption.

And biomass is something that is not nice to say.

You can get a lot of it by just digging some soil in the field.

It is not as difficult to obtain as Baiyun Steel.

And the pitch-black carapace has an advantage that even Baiyun Steel cannot compare with.

Light.

Although the name has a heavy weight, the mass of the pitch-black carapace is only one-third of Baiyun Steel at the same volume.

And this is of great significance to the maneuverability of ships in the universe.

After all, the spacecraft needs to contend with inertia when it moves, and inertia is only related to mass.

The lighter the spacecraft, the more maneuverability it has in short-distance navigation.

These are the unique features of the heavy biomass spacecraft pitch-black carapace as biomass spacecraft armor.

I can only say that Chen Ming's first blind box draw was very good.

But it may not be the case next time.

And as Chen Ming opened the previous panel again, he also found out.

The option of gene backtracking has usage restrictions, and it must be used again after one month.

There are restrictions on blind box draws, and Chen Ming can hardly hold back.

But forget it, he doesn't have any expectations for this thing anyway.

He still has to learn this aspect of biotechnology himself.

Try to obtain the possibility of evolution in a more stable way.

That is, directly extract and analyze the genes of the Zerg.

Isn't this much more reliable than blind box draws?

Of course, this is also difficult.

But since he has a biological spaceship in his hands, these are things that he will have to learn sooner or later, so he will learn them slowly.

The matter of the biological spacecraft has been completely dealt with.

However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to leave here.

Because the matter of the Zerg has not been dealt with yet.

So he continued to let the High Point stay in the orbit around the star.

Then he continued on the planet and spent a few days to solve the problems left over from before.

That is, the bugs that the Queen had cultivated before were not in his hive mind network.

Although the Queen's consciousness has been disconnected from the hive mind networks built by other Zergs.

But the retention of pheromones can still allow the Queen to continue to control all the bugs in the hives that have lost the biggest individual consciousness.

Relying on pheromones, the Queen will devour all the bugs in the hive, turn them into nutrients, and reproduce them again.

Although this will lose some biomass, the re-bred bugs are worth doing so.

Because Chen Ming's psychic power also maintains control over these bugs, like manipulating some kind of biological armor,

and as the Queen completed the construction of the new Zerg hive mind network, the feedback of the mind network soon came to Chen Ming's head.

The recovery efficiency of mental power that each individual hive can provide to Chen Ming is a bit insignificant.

But the feedback provided by all the insects in a hive that is about the same size as the mechanical city has increased Chen Ming's mental power recovery speed by about 50%.

And it's not just the bonus in terms of mental power. The hive mind network connecting the entire hive has another more outrageous effect,

speeding up his thinking speed.

Chen Ming knows very well what this means.

This is not just thinking faster, nor is it just learning faster.

But his entire ability will have an extremely obvious increase.

It's like his consciousness is controlling all body organs including the brain with 120% efficiency.

Assuming that a person's total ability is enhanced by 20%, then from an overall point of view, this person's enhancement is not just 20%. Chen Ming knows this very well.

So Chen Ming is now also accelerating the control of the mechanical city.

There is also a hive mind network waiting for him to develop.

It's just that his progress in controlling the mechanical race is not ideal.

Limited by Chen Ming's own psychic power and the efficiency of his robots in transporting those dormant mechanical races.

As a result, Chen Ming had the Queen of Zerg replace all the insects in the entire Zerg nest.

The control progress of the mechanical race in the mechanical race city is only a dozen percent.

Fortunately, Chen Ming did not plan to make the next jump and build the next temporary base so quickly, otherwise the control of the mechanical race would definitely slow down his progress.

In short, when all the mechanical races in the mechanical race city are under his control.

The hive mind network of the mechanical race will definitely provide him with more mental power and the most critical increase in thinking speed.

Chen Ming is now a little afraid to think about what effect the additions provided by the two hive mind networks of the mechanical race and the Zerg can have.

Moreover, the increase in thinking also has a very significant impact on his psychic power effect.

The most obvious thing is that the number of cruisers that Chen Ming can control has increased from three to four.

This is also one of the benefits of controlling the Zerg.

Chen Ming is now more and more curious about one thing, what exactly is his psychic power?

From controlling spaceships to controlling machinery, from controlling machinery to controlling biological spaceships.

Even now Chen Ming can directly control biological beings, that is, those Zergs.

Chen Ming himself does not quite understand such psychic power.

But forget it.

Just know that this is a good thing.

Although there was trouble at the beginning, the final result was good, so there was no problem.

Just like before.

First there was Yuhui making trouble, using him as a fuse to attract attention from another dimension.

But in the end he got a special condensed psychic source and practical training of mental power.

Now there are dangerous Thorn Zergs escaping from the space station where he once woke up and breeding in space.

But this incident also allowed him to obtain the city of the mechanical race, understand the cluster consciousness of the mechanical race, and passively build a cluster consciousness that can feed back his mental power.

Even the Zerg itself has become part of the benefits he has obtained.

As long as the result is good, it doesn't matter if the process is a little bad.

Even if Chen Ming didn't know what effect his psychic power had, as long as he could rely on it to become stronger, it didn't matter to him what the psychic power was like.

Rather, he hoped that his psychic power would have these special effects that were beyond his expectations.

Of course, the long-term disadvantages brought by the previous events seemed to be there.

The attention of the things in another dimension attracted by the afterglow would most likely cause the empire to encounter the situation many years ago again.

If the Zerg that Chen Ming is facing now continues to reproduce in space, it seems to be a threat to the empire.

Of course, Chen Ming will definitely not admit it if others mention the Zerg. In the end, it is still the problem of the star region military that first discovered these bugs.

Associating the disadvantages of these two things, Chen Ming unconsciously thought about whether psychic power would bring him harm.

Chen Ming felt that it would definitely be.

But if he didn't have psychic power, he would have died on the mining space station long ago.

His life was saved by psychic power, and he had to bear all the disadvantages brought by psychic power no matter how bad it was.

Chen Ming confirmed his thoughts in his heart, and then transferred the questions he was thinking about to the things that happened later.

In the next period of time, he should not run out like he is now. He should stay in the temporary base and proceed step by step according to the original plan.

Relying on the extreme distance jump, he gradually led the Yuhui army away from the border of the empire.

However, Chen Ming did not plan to take away too many mechanical tribes and the queen of worms on the planet in a short time.

After all, the existence of the mechanical city on this planet is real.

Although the city has lost its resource supply and has declined, and there are huge amounts of damage.

But it is a built city after all.

There are many things Chen Ming needs in the city.

Even if Chen Ming can't read the text, he doesn't need to understand the text of another civilization to use the city.

So before he finds a place suitable for his colony construction, this mechanical city can be used as a temporary base, which requires the mechanical race to maintain the city.

It's not impossible to even use this city as a permanent base. Chen Ming can use it as a bridgehead for communication with the empire.

If something really goes wrong and he is beaten, he can just run away, and it's not impossible to abandon this place directly.

Anyway, the city was picked up by him in the beginning, so he doesn't feel bad if he throws it all away.

In addition to the mechanical race, it's actually better for the queen of insects to continue to develop on the planet.

Such a large habitable planet, no one comes, and the resources of the entire planet can be used.

Given the time for the Thorn Zerg to continue to develop, Chen Ming didn't know how far they could grow.

There was actually another reason for Chen Ming to make this decision.

When he recast the hive a few days before the Queen of Zerg, he discovered an extremely unique feature of the hive mind.

All the sub-individual consciousness in the hive mind does not only exist in the body, but also in the hive mind network.

The death of the body does not mean the extinction of their consciousness.

As long as the hive network still exists and does not carry too much consciousness, then after the Zerg body is reshaped, the consciousness of the sub-individual of the hive mind will be stuffed back into the reshaped body.

The same is true for the mechanical race, which also has hive thinking.

Chen Ming then understood why the mechanical race died and there was no sign of resurrection after it was repaired.

Obviously, Chen Ming needs to use the honeycomb network of the mechanical race to split a new consciousness body in the network and stuff it into the body of the mechanical race.

However, Chen Ming currently does not control many mechanical races, even if he controls the entire city.

Because the mechanical race is somewhat special, the consciousness required to support their mechanical body activities is completely different from that of the Zerg.

So although Chen Ming can let the Queen of Zerg create new Zerg individuals, he cannot create new mechanical race individuals. He needs to control more mechanical races.

If it were just these, it would not be a big deal.

It can only speed up the progress of re-cultivation or manufacturing of Zerg or mechanical races.

But the key point is that Chen Ming's psychic power can transmit materials and manufacture remotely.

Before, Chen Ming could not use the transformation method to transmit the individual Yuhui over a long distance because the individual consciousness of Yuhui was independent and extremely powerful.

The process of transformation and reconstruction of transmission would cause them to die.

Unlike the Zerg, the mechanical race will not die due to the destruction of the body.

This means that Chen Ming can disassemble the mechanical race and decompose the Zerg.

Then create the mechanical body of the mechanical race and the body of the Zerg in a new place.

These sub-individual consciousnesses of the mechanical race and the Zerg will be stored in his hive mind network, and with the help of his psychic power, they will cross the long distance between the universe and appear where Chen Ming needs them.

As long as Chen Ming has a Queen's proliferated tissue or masters the manufacturing technology of the mechanical race.

Then he can create mechanical races and Zerg races out of thin air wherever he wants.

Of course, Chen Ming's psychic power can only manufacture machines at present.

Zerg races are still limited by their biological nature and can only use Queen's tissue to transform and complete this step, and this also requires Chen Ming to master a lot of complex biological technology.

So this is why Chen Ming plans to let Queen and the mechanical race stay on this planet temporarily.

The mechanical race needs to be controlled.

The queen needs to continue to develop.

He still needs to continue to learn.

They all need time.

That's why he made this decision.

Chen Ming thought about this matter again in his mind.

Confirm that there is no problem.

Just put this matter aside for the time being.

Unless there are foreign enemies on the planet, the creatures on this planet have no resistance to the mechanical race and the insect race.

It is impossible to pose a threat to them, and he is really not needed.

Anyway, he will definitely leave a defender here before leaving.

It will definitely be useful when necessary.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly thought that he seemed to have never seen a mechanical race spaceship in the mechanical race city, and he didn't know what the situation was.

But this is nothing, maybe he will encounter it in the future, the mechanical race is not as rare as the insect race.

Then this matter is almost done.

He should go back to deal with the business.

Chen Ming originally just came here to confirm the situation of the mechanical race, but he didn't realize that he had spent almost a week here.

Next, he had to turn his attention back to what he needed to do most right now, which was to find a colony.